Last week, June 11-13, my husband and I traveled from St. Paul to Nashua, Iowa to renew our wedding vows for our 50th anniversary at the Little Brown Church in the Vale. We were married there on June 11, 1960 and my husband started planning this journey back in 1969 (unbeknownst to me). Then a few months ago, he told me about his plan and we got the ball rolling. It was wonderful. Beautiful sunny day, (actually it was "sweating" hot out. We renewed our vows, had communion, exchanged an additional ring to go next to the ones we exchanged when we were married the first time. It was a very personal time between the two of us and very meaningful. We had an organist, a photographer, the minister and us. That was all. The minister was marvelous. When the service was over, the organist played "The Little Brown Church in the Vale" and I just fell apart. It was like all 50 years had come back bit by bit, reminding me of the good times, the hard times, the fun times, the scary times.
The next day we drove down to the Amana Colonies where we have relatives and hit the quilt shop! I bought enough material to make our "Anniversary Quilt" which had been running through my mind for the past month or so and it all came together in a matter of 24 hours.
I was just wondering how many of you were also married there? And how many of you would ever consider being married there? It's about 3 hours from St. Paul and is a wonderful trip.
If you are in the least bit interested google "Little Brown Church in the Vale" and where you see the piano keys click on and it plays the music. We had a cd made of pictures, again, just the two of us, for posterity and that song is played throughout the pictures.
Wonderful experience. Edie